The 510 Realm

Keith, funny opening sentence. I’ve had a similar experience on fresh concrete.

Do you manually fill your oil cooler and lines prior to startup or just let the pump handle the air?

Jay

It’s the later roadster solid style with the holes. I trimmed it down to make it look like the earlier version.

Thanks, now I need to protect my wagon too and replace the nylon tubing.

The sedan engine bay in all its glory.

Replaced my mechanical oil pressure line per Keith’s recommendation, thank you. The old nylon line was very brittle. My son and I also drove up to Sonoma Raceway to watch vintage racing.

I’m using a Z lower mount, Nissan PN 11710-E3000. It’s a 3 bolt mount, I had to slot the rear bolt hole to line up with my L18 block. 5DBA8FB3-2684-4B6F-83E1-705CA551CAA6.jpeg The mount does position the belt correctly with the Z crank pulley and water pump. Plus gives a bit more clearance for the l...

What crank pulley/damper are you using? It doesn’t look stock. I know some crank pulley/damper combinations require the Z original alternator bracket. I had to do this with a Z water pump and pulley too.

Is there power to the coil with the key at ‘start’?

Thanks for the response and information guys. The transmission came with a rolling project I purchased in 2006 and didn’t have much information regarding the parts which came with it. Just a bunch of boxes full of parts. Glad I finally found the part number on the transmission. I already installed t...

I recently removed my transmission to replace the rear seal. I discovered I have a competition transmission PN 32010-N3130. From a bit of research this should have steel synchromesh’s. Does anyone know which gear oil and or additive I should used? In my other transmissions I used 75W-90 GL-4 for the...

From The Dime, Quarterly it shows D409-54 is from a L16/L18 SSS.
It should be a single point. What does it look like under the cap?